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The United States Office of the Coast Survey began in 1807, when Thomas Jefferson founded the Survey of the Coast. However, the fledgling office was plagued by the War of 1812 and disagreements over whether it should be civilian or military controlled. The entity was re-founded in 1832 with Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler as its superintendent. Although a civilian agency, many military officers served the office; army officers tended to perform the topographic surveys, while naval officers conducted the hydrographic work.
The Survey’s history was greatly affected by larger events in American history. During the Civil War, while the agency was lead by Alexander Dallas Bache (Benjamin Franklin’s grandson), the Survey provided the Union army with charts. Survey personnel accompanied blockading squadrons in the field, making new charts in the process.
After the Civil War, as the country was settled, the Coast Survey sent parties to make new maps, employing scientists and naturalists like John Muir and Louis Agassiz in the process. By 1926, the Survey expanded their purview further to include aeronautical charts. During the Great Depression, the Coast Survey employed over 10,000 people and in the Second World War the office oversaw the production of 100 million maps for the Allies. Since 1970, the Coastal and Geodetic Survey has formed part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and it is still producing navigational products and services today.
Place/Date:
Washington / 1944
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47 x 20.5 inches
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VG
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55379
Place/Date:
Washington / 1944
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47 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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55403
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Washington / 1944
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43 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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56071
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Washington / 1944
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47 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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58199
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Washington / 1944
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47 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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58242
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Washington / 1945
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43 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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58345
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Washington, D.C. / 1952 May
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43 x 20.25 inches
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VG+
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97152
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. / 1945
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28 x 20.5 inches
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Good
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97680
Place/Date:
Washington / 1976
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55 x 20.5 inches
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VG
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70376
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1943
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47 x 20.5 inches
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VG
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95104
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Washington, D.C. / 1952
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28 x 21.5 inches (including text)
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VG
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96793
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Washington, D.C. / 1952
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28 x 21.5 inches
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96896
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Washington, D.C. / 1952
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28 x 21.5 inches
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96897
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Washington, D.C. / 1951
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28 x 21.5 inches
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VG
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Washington, D.C. / 1951
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28 x 21.5 inches
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VG
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97068
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Washington, D.C. / 1945
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29 x 22 inches
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VG
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97161
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Washington / 1944
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47 x 20.5 inches
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VG
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97173
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Washington, D.C. / 1966
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46.3 x 29.5 inches
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97771
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Washington, D.C. / 1952
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27.8 x 20.4 inches
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98802
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Washington, D.C. / 1966 (1967)
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33.7 x 46 inches
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VG+
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98812
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Washington, D.C. / 1965
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27 x 39 inches
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VG+
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98813
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Washington, D. C. / 1943 January 21
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44 x 23 inches
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Good
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68648
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Washington D.C. / 1952
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34.7 x 25 inches
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VG+
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87120
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. / 1951
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27 x 54 inches
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VG+
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87123
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Washington, D.C. / 1951
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27.75 x 20.4 inches
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VG+
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98761
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Washington / 1947 (1948)
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28 x 21 inches
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VG
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70976
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Washington, D.C. / 1943
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21 x 16 inches
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VG
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83236
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Washington, D.C. / 1952
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28 x 21.5 inches
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VG
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87121
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/ 1891
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20 x 16.5 inches
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VG
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89562
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1944
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47 x 20 inches
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VG
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96226
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Washington, D.C. / 1951
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28 x 21.5 inches
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VG
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96224
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1952
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28 x 21.5 inches
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VG
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96222
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Washington, D.C. / 1952
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27.9 x 20.5 inches
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97483
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Washington D.C. / 1945
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28 x 20.5 inches
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VG
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97681
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Washington, D.C. / 1945
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33.1 x 20.2 inches
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VG
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99620
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Washington D.C. / 1951
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49.5 x 28.4 inches
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VG
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98728
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. / 1944
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46.8 x 20.2 inches
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VG+
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98748
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Washington, D.C. / 1957
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41.75 x 33.4 inches
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VG+
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100574
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Washington, D.C. / 1945
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47 x 20.25 inches
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VG
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81355
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Washington D.C. / 1946
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43.2 x 13.2 inches
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VG
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98371
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. / 1921 (1925)
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33.5 x 39 inches
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Good
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69625
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1880 (printed 1893)
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22.5 x 15.5 inches
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VG+
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91990
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1943
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46 x 32 inches
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VG
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95102
Place/Date:
Washington / 1945
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24.5 x 49.5 inches
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VG
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95759
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1877
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29.25 x 38.25 inches
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VG
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101364
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Washignton, D.C. / 1887
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29.8 x 38.5 inches
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Good
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101365
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Washington, D.C. / 1903
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18.5 x 18.5 inches
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VG
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48383
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. / 1941
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43 x 34 inches
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VG
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51313
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Washington D.C. / 1932 (1948)
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30.25 x 43.25 inches
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VG+
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55718
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1891 (1915)
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27 x 42 inches
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VG
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79292
Archived
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n.p. / 1889 (1914)
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78276
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n.p. / 1889
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78275
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Washington / 1944
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47 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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57906
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Washington / 1888
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44 x 36 inches
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VG
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23018
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Washington / 1903
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38.5 x 32.5 inches
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VG
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32087
Place/Date:
Washington / 1945
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43 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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55911
Place/Date:
Washington / 1944
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47 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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56617
Place/Date:
Washington / 1945
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43 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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56634
Place/Date:
Washington / 1944
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47 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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56655
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. / 1952 circa
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33 x 39 inches
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VG
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56784
Place/Date:
Washington / 1944
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43 x 20.5 inches
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57793
Place/Date:
Washington / 1945
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43 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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57852
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Washington / 1945
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43 x 20.5 inches
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57879
Place/Date:
Washington / 1944
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47 x 20.5 inches
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57979
Place/Date:
Washington / 1944
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43 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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58020
Place/Date:
Washington / 1944
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47 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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58044
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1937 (1950)
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32 x 40 inches
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VG
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58530
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Washington, D.C. / 1891
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19.5 x 29 inches
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VG
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61167
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. / 1944
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43 x 20.5 inches
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VG
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55526
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Washington, DC / 1872 (1905)
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39 x 32.5 inches
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VG
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34527
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Washington / 1945
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43 x 20.5 inches
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55364
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Washington / 1945
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43 x 20.5 inches
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55453
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Washington / 1945
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43 x 20.5 inches
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55476
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Washington / 1944
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43 x 20.5 inches
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VG+
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55852
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Washington / 1893
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37 x 27 inches
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VG
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22100
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Washington, D.C. / 1899
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14.5 x 12 inches
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VG
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44110
Place/Date:
Washington / 1944
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43 x 23.5 inches
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VG
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68581
Place/Date:
Washington / 1945
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48 x 23 inches
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VG
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84100
Place/Date:
Washington, D. C. / 1944 June 29
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44 x 23 inches
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VG
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95410
Place/Date:
Washington / 1943
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38.5 x 22 inches Including text
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VG
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68612
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1887
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27 x 35.5 inches
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VG+
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51033
Place/Date:
Washington / 1943
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47.5 x 20.5 inches
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VG
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55415
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Washington / 1948
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47 x 23.5 inches
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VG+
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56455
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1939 (1942)
Size:
28 x 22 inches
Condition:
VG+
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59577
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. / 1932
Size:
31 x 37 inches
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VG
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57608
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1901
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25 x 40.5 inches
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VG+
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62348
Place/Date:
Washington / 1945
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27 x 41 inches
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VG
Stock#:
69172
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1943
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16.5 x 17.5 inches
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VG
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83234
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1943
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21 x 16 inches
Condition:
Good
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83235
Place/Date:
n.p. (Washington, D.C.) / 1856 (printed June 30 1892)
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14 x 17.25 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
89561
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Washington, D. C. / 1963
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35 x 33 inches
Condition:
VG
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68026
Place/Date:
Washington, D.C. / 1962
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23.25 x 36.12 inches whole sheet
Condition:
VG+
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95760
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. ? / 1889 circa
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28 x 22 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
58120
Place/Date:
Washington / 1942
Size:
27 x 42 inches
Condition:
Good
Stock#:
68496
Place/Date:
Washington / 1885
Size:
35 x 30 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
34678mb
Place/Date:
Washington / 1948
Size:
47.5 x 20.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
46941
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. / 1946
Size:
22 x 29 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
46942
Place/Date:
Washington D.C. / 1866
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16.3 x 17.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
68112
Place/Date:
Washington / 1945
Size:
27 x 41 inches
Condition:
Good
Stock#:
68461
Place/Date:
Washington / 1945
Size:
27 x 42 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
69693